This indispensable translation is as close to the original as it is possible to get while at the same time being a clear and fluid translation
Leo Tolstoy was born in central Russia on 9 September 1828. In 1852 he published his first work, the autobiographical Childhood. He served in the army during the Crimean War and his Sevastopol Sketches (1855-6) are based on his experiences. His two most popular masterpieces are War and Peace (1864-69) and Anna Karenina (1875-8). He died in 20 November 1910.
Brigg's 2006 translation of Tolstoy's old doorstop was paraded by critics, many of whom hailed it as the best rendition to date. This fine addition to Penguin's marvelous "Classics Deluxe" line includes the full text, chapter summaries, textual notes, character lists by family, maps, and more. It's a Russian lit (and Tolstoy head's) dream, especially at this price (the 2006 hardcover was $40). Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will
show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it * The
Times *
This is, at last, a translation of War and Peace without the
dreadful misunderstandings and "improvements" that plague all other
translations of the novel into English. Pevear and Volokhonsky's
supple and compelling translation is the closest that an English
reader without Russian can get to Tolstoy's masterwork. This is a
great achievement. It is hard to imagine how this translation could
be superseded." -- Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Professor of Slavic
Languages and Literatures,
It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in
it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book, this
would be it -- Andrew Marr
Reveals Tolstoy in his majestic scope and precision to this reader
for the first time, unencumbered by the pidgin archaisms of
previous translations, ringing with mastery and truth * Times
Literary Supplement, Books of the Year *
It may sound pretentious, or strange, but I can remember the weeks
(three weeks, to be precise) I spent reading War and Peace as a
peak experience of sustained excitement and deep delight. Part of
the delight was the largeness and strangeness of this world - the
sense of the vastness and extremes of Russia, the unboundedness of
everything * Finacial Times *
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